streamlink/streamlink 2.4.0

Streamlink 2.4.0

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Release highlights:

• Deprecated: stream-type specific stream transport options in favor of generic options (#3893)

  • use --stream-segment-attempts instead of --{dash,hds,hls}-segment-attempts
  • use --stream-segment-threads instead of --{dash,hds,hls}-segment-threads
  • use --stream-segment-timeout instead of --{dash,hds,hls}-segment-timeout
  • use --stream-timeout instead of --{dash,hds,hls,rtmp,http-stream}-timeout

  See the documentation's deprecations page for more information.

• Deprecated: --hls-segment-stream-data option and made it always stream segment data (#3894)

• Updated: Python version of the Windows installer from 3.8 to 3.9 and dropped support for Windows 7 due to Python incompatibilities (#3918)
  See the documentation's install page for alternative installation methods on Windows 7.

• Updated: FFmpeg in the Windows Installer from 4.2 (Zeranoe) to 4.4 (streamlink/FFmpeg-Builds) (#3981)

• Added: {author}, {category}/{game}, {title} and {url} variables to --output, --record and --record-and-play (#3962)

• Added: {time}/{time:custom-format} variable to --title, --output, --record and --record-and-play (#3993)

• Added: --fs-safe-rules for changing character replacement rules in file outputs (#3962)

• Added: plugin metadata to --json stream data output (#3987)

• Fixed: named pipes not being cleaned up by FFMPEGMuxer (#3992)

• Fixed: KeyError on invalid variables in --player-args (#3988)

• Fixed: tests failing in certain cases when run in different order (#3920)

• Fixed: initial HLS playlist parsing issues (#3903, #3910)

• Fixed: various plugin issues. Please see the changelog down below.

• Dependencies: added lxml>=4.6.3 (#3952)

• Dependencies: switched back to requests>=2.26.0 on Windows (#3930)

• Removed plugins: animeworld (#3951), gardenersworld (#3966), huomao (#3932)

Installation

See the detailed installation instructions on Streamlink's website.

Supporting Streamlink

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Grabien <60237587+Grabien@users.noreply.github.com> (1):
      plugins.nbcnews: fix stream URL extraction (#3909)

Ian Cameron <1661072+mkbloke@users.noreply.github.com> (2):
      plugins.huomao: plugin removal
      plugins.pluto: fix URL match for 2 letter language codes

Leonardo Nascimento <lbnascimento@inf.ufrgs.br> (1):
      plugins.booyah: add support for source stream (#3969)

back-to <backto@protonmail.ch> (9):
      stream.hls: handle exception StreamError in Thread-HLSStreamWorker - iter_segments
      plugins.raiplay: use 'res.encoding = "UTF-8"'
      plugins.rtve: update for /play/ URLs
      plugins.zattoo: fix HLS stream, added more debug details
      tests.mixins.stream_hls: increase TIMEOUT_AWAIT_WRITE timeout, use --durations 10 for pytest
      setup: update requests version >=2.26.0 and makeinstaller.sh
      plugins.abematv: skip invalid ad segments
      plugins.animelab: removed
      cli.argparser: Fixed ValueError for streamlink --help

bastimeyer <mail@bastimeyer.de> (39):
      session: deprecate options for spec. stream types
      stream.hls: remove hls-segment-stream-data option
      docs: reorganize stream transport options
      stream.hls: except more errors raised by requests
      tests.hls: fix playlist reload time tests
      stream.hls: close stream on initial parsing error
      installer: upgrade to python 3.9
      tests: fix Plugin.bind(session) calls
      plugin: fix cookie related error messages
      docs: update python-requests version comment
      plugins.twitch: replace remaining kraken API calls
      plugins.twitch: refactor TwitchAPI class methods
      plugins.euronews: add API fallback requests
      plugins.sportschau: fix audio streams
      vendor: add lxml dependency
      plugins.deutschewelle: rewrite plugin
      plugins.gardenersworld: remove plugin
      cli: player title and file output metadata vars
      plugin.api.validate: switch to lxml.etree
      plugin.api.validate: add args+kwargs to transform
      plugin.api.validate: add parse_{json,html,xml,qsd}
      plugin: metadata attributes
      plugins: fix utils imports
      plugins.welt: rewrite and simplify using XPath
      plugins.deutschewelle: validate.parse_html
      plugins.reuters: rewrite and fix using XPath
      plugins.euronews: rewrite and fix using XPath
      installer: move assets config to local JSON file
      installer: switch to streamlink/FFmpeg-Builds
      cli.main: f-strings
      cli.main: annotate types of global vars
      cli.main: check args.json instead of console.json
      cli.console: refactor ConsoleOutput
      cli: include plugin metadata in --json output
      cli.output: fix unknown vars in --player-args / -a
      stream.ffmpegmux: always clean up named pipes
      cli.utils.formatter: rewrite Formatter
      cli.utils.formatter: implement format_spec
      cli: add {time:format} var to --output / --title

gustaf <gustaf@protonmail.ch> (1):
      plugins.svtplay: fix plugin video id

steven7851 <steven7851@msn.com> (1):
      plugins.app17: fix API_URL and URL match (#3989)